Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford is accompanying the US Secretary of State.

The American delegation will hold talks with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his team at the foreign office.

The delegation is also scheduled to hold meetings with senior political and military leadership on bilateral relations and regional security.

The US delegation’s visit has significance at it is going to happen at a time when the relations between the two countries are at the standstill due to undue pressures from the Trump administration on Pakistan to do more.

The visit also comes days after US military said it has made a final decision to cancel $300 million in Coalition Support Funds (CSF) to Pakistan that had been suspended over alleged failure to take decisive action against militants, in a new blow to deteriorating ties.